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Michigan State wins NCAA crown, 75-64 sec id tuesday Leader The Wilkes-Barre I Final Edition MARCH 27, 1979 20 nr -71- I vmm OPEC iiiiieFesise P' 2 5 oil price 9o0 'i i 1 X1 up to $4 a barrel over the base price, depending on market demand. Analysts said if all 13 OPEC members add the maximum surcharge the result would be an additional six cents a gallon added to American pump prices for a total increase of eight cents. The current price for Arabian light crude oil, the so-called benchmark of the industry, is $13.35 for a 42-gallon barrel. A 5 percent increase in OPEC prices usually increases the American price of gasoline about a penny a gallon. Analysts here estimated the new base price will add about $13.5 billion to OPEC coffers this year from industrialized Western nations.

By MARK POTTS AP BuMmu WrHw GENEVA, Switzerland The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided today to raise the base price of crude oil by 9.05 percent as of next Sunday, to $14.54 a barrel, the oil minister of Qatar told reporters. That would increase American pump prices for gasoline by about two cents a gallon. i The new price is the base price the oil cartel originally had set for next October in its quarterly increase schedule. The minister said the OPEC oil ministers also authorized new surcharges of Guard captures convict after courthouse escape Israeli police gift through rubble after a bomb blast Organization Is suspected in the blast Another Tuesday in a vegetable market in Lod, Israel, Tuesday. One woman bombing, this one in Paris, injured at least 21 occupants of was killed and It other persons were injured in the blast, a hostel for Jewish students in the Paris Latin Quarter.

Lod is IS miles east of Tel Aviv. The Palestine Liberation Arab terrorists are suspected in the Paris explosion. Foes of -treaty 'respond: with bombings, threats SCRANTON Convicted murderer Nicholas Karabin Jr. escaped from the Lackawanna County Courthouse Monday afternoon, but his freedom was short lived. Karabin was captured less than a block away from the courthouse after being tackled by a 60-year-old courthouse security guard.

Karabin, a school teacher turned private detective, was at the scheduled to appear as a witness for James Martin. Martin was having a hearing on burglary charges. Karabin, 34, of Clarks Summit, is an' inmate at the Chase Correctional Institution at Dallas. He is awaiting sentencing and trials for a variety of offenses, including first degree murder. According to police, Deputy Sheriff Chester Lenceski entered courthouse cell around 4:20 p.m.

to If 4 I The hostel, in an apartment building on Rue Medicis, on the edge of the Luxembourg Gardens, is only two blocks from the Sorbonne, the main Paris University. Founded in 1945, the hostel is one of the oldest Jewish students' hostels in Paris. Related story, page JA Meanwhile, thousands of banner-waving demonstrators marched through Baghdad, Iraq, today as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's foes gathered to try to agree on action to sabotage his peace treaty with Israel. The big question was how far Saudi Arabia, Egypt's chief financial backer, would agree to go. Iraq's ruling Baathist Party organized a big rally to kick off the Arab League session.

Chants of "death to the traitor" and "down with the Sadat regime" rang I through the Iraqi capital. Official Muroski tried to get Harkovich a pay raise to $17,500 by reapportioning his' office's budget, but the county commissioners voted unanimously against the proposal. Muroski was informed of the decision last Thursday. So Muroski says his office will have to do without "five good years" from Harkovich. The mandatory retirement age for county employees is 70 years The district attorney claims the loss will be especially disruptive to his office because another department head, Chief Clerk Joseph Burgas, will soon be lost to mandatory retirement.

And Muroski says Harkovich's retirement could end up costing the county a lot of money, whereas his proposal would have cost nothing. In a letter dated March 14, Muroski told" County Budget Director Paul J. Maher county detectives have the right to request binding arbitration during upcoming contract talks for 1980 and if Harkovich was forced to retire, his re a The new base price apparently was a victory for the so-called Arab moderates such as Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi over more militant members such as Algeria, Iran, Libya and Iraq. Iran sought a base price increase of 29 percent. The militants apparently settled for the smaller increase in the base price in exchange for the surcharges, analysts said.

OPEC in December agreed on a four-stage schedule of increases totaling 14.5 percent by Oct. 1. The second increase, to $13.84 a barrel, is scheduled for April 1, and the October base price is scheduled to be $14.55. Karabin was then taken before District Magistrate Thomas Hart and arra-held for a preliminary hearing April 2 at 2 p.m. He was returned to his cell and was not called as a witness at Martin's hearing.

Karabin was arrested last June and charged with the March 17, 1978 shotgun -slaying- of Gerald Walsh of West Scran-ton. After his arrest, it was revealed that Karabin had a "hit list" with five names oh it. Karabin has pleaded guilty to the shooting April 6, 1978 of Robert Chris-tiano of West Scranton and is a suspect in the February 1978 slaying of another West Scranton man, James Shipman. Karabin and Martin, along with another convict, Joseph Bossick, have been charged with the hanging death of inmate Clifford Doolittle Feb. 6 in his cell at the Lackawanna County Prison.

(AP Luerpbolo) lions for their hosts. Later today, the team's entourage will go on a shopping spree in the city. After that, the Russians will embark on a busy three-day tour of the Wilkes-Barre area. From Wilkes-Barre, they will travel to a World Cup Championship at Toledo University. After the World Cup, the Soviets will be in Phoenix and then Los Angeles for a meet with the "Athletes in Action." The New.

York City meeting, arranged by the Dallas-based Back Mountain Wrestling Club, was the culmination of a 14-month effort by the local wrestling sponsor to bring the Soviets before the fans of northeastern Pennsylvania. Daily Lottery Monday's number was: 2-7-1 Weather mm rt rtin-tv rnnibi vnvwwi COLD piiify From Associated Press reports Bombings and demonstrations Tuesday punctuated the euphoria following the signing of the peace treaty between Egypt nd Israel. A woman was killed and 18 other persons were injured today when a bomb exploded under a vegetable stand in an outdoor market in Lod, 15 miles east of Tel Aviv, police said. Two of the injured were reported in serious condition. It 'was the second explosion believed set off by Palestinians angered by the peace treaty signed Monday in Washington.

A hand grenade wounded nine persons, two of them American tourists, in a hostel in Arab East Jerusalem Monday night. In Paris, a violent explosion in a hostel for Jewish students in the heart of the Paris Latin Quarter in-' jured at least 26 occupants today, police reported. Two of the injured were reported in very serious condition. There was immediate speculation the blast was caused by a bomb planted by Arab terrorists as an act of revenge against the Egyptian-Israel peace agreement. Paris police chief Pierre Som-veille told reporters: "We do not know the exact cause of the explosion for the moment, but it seems to be a criminal act." transport him to the Martin hearing.

As the deputy was preparing to place shackles on Karabin's ankles, Karabin knocked the deputy down and ran for the door. Martin, who -had already been shackled, stepped between Karabin and another police officer, preventing the officer from grabbing Karabin. Police said Karabin raced through the front door of the courthouse onto Adams Avenue He got as far as the parking, lot behind North Penn Savings Loan across the street from the courthouse. Karabin was tackled there by Edward Callahan, a 60-year-old courthouse security guard. A scuffle ensued but Callahan, an ex-Marine, managed to hold on to Karabin.

Callahan was suffered cuts to his chin, an arm and leg. northeastern Pennsylvania, later arrived in Wilkes-Barre for an 8 p.m. Wednesday meeting with 'the American National Wrestling Team at King's College Field House. It will be the Soviet wrestling team's only East Coast appearance. The Russians, who will be boused at the Treadway Inn, were welcomed officially by Mayor Walter.

Lisman this morning during a breakfast with city and state officials at the Boston Store's Pickering Room. The visiting wrestlers ate hearty helpings of bacon, eggs, toast and coffee or tea, and were given a key to Wilkes-Barre by the mayor. Some of the tors, who are traveling with an interpreter, also had small souvenir medal PHI 12 (AP UserplMto) Iraqi newspapers called for "concrete measures against Sadat on political, economic, informational and mass mobilization levels." Egypt responded with an announcement in Cairo that it was suspending participation in the League which it founded in 1945 but would continue to uphold the Arab cause. Thousands also marched for three hours in Damascus to protest the treaty. The -march there was led by Archbishop Hilarion Capudji, the Greek Catholic archbishop of Jerusalem who did time in an.

Israeli prison for smuggling weapons to Palestinian terrorists, and Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali al Halaby. The Damascus march ended with rally at which Syrian officials pledged full support to the Palestine Liberation Organization and its fight for a Palestinian nation on the West Bank of the Jordan River. The Baghdad meeting of Arab foreign and economic ministers was called to discuss application of resolutions adopted at an anti-Sadat summit conference in Baghdad last November. They call for: A boycott of any Egyptian party or person that deals with Israel. Creation of an annual $3 billion fund to help the Palestine Liberation Organization and the "confrontation states" around Israel Jordan, Syria and Iraq to build up their military forces to fight the "treacherous peace." placement would likely opt for binding arbitration.

If the county's three detectives decide to employ binding arbitration, pay raises to levels well in excess of $17,500 "will probably result," Muroski said. Asked about the wisdom of the decision, Commissioner Frank Crossin said "we get these kinds of requests all of the time, and you can't judge them individually." He refused to answer w.hen" asked if he knew of Muroskl's contention that the move could lead to higher salaries for the detectives, Commissioners Edmund C. Wideman and Stephen Yanoshak were unavailable for comment. Harkovich had nothing to say to reporters Monday about his retirement except he had arrived quietly, and wished to leave in the same manner. His retirement is officially effective April 20 after he takes three weeks of vacation due him.

Muroski says a replacement will then be named. Steve Evanoff, member of the executive committee of with Soviet Olympic wrestling champion Livan Tedjashvi-the AAU and representative for the United States of the In- left, and Ivan Yarygin, right, Soviet Olympic champion, ternational Amateur Wrestling Federation, center, stands at New York's LaGuardla Airport Monday. Russian wrestlers arrive Chief detective to retire By DAVE CATER Stuff Writer NEW YORK The message was short but said much: "Dobro tozhalovat Ameriku. Kak vl pozhivayete." "Welcome to America. Hello, how are you?" And so it went as members of the Back Mountain Wrestling- Club wel-1 corned their Russian counterparts to the States for their first stop on a four-city wrestling tour.

Club member Tom Feeney echoed the Russian words as he extended his hand to the Russians Monday night at LaGuardia Airport in New York The team, on a three-day stay in By JOSEPH RUBIN Stuff Wrttw COURTHOUSE Economically, Luzerne County's chief detective thinks he's better off retiring. So 65-year-old John Harkovich will do just that Saturday, much to the chagrin of his boss, District Attorney Chester Muroski. Harkovich, a former state police investigator and a 15-year veteran as a county detective, serves as both chief detective' and trial administrator for Muroski. He took the second position in January without a salary hike. It seems Harkovich's Social Security and other retirement benefits can almost match his current salary.

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